Alpine Borderlands

Alpine Borderlands map

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The Borderlands are the launching point for many adventurers into The Mists. With a heavily fortified location that climbs all the way to the peak of a mountain, it can be a difficult place for enemies to assault and an excellent place for would-be heroes to get their first battle scars.

— In-game description

The Alpine Borderlands are two identical maps in World versus World (Green and Blue; Red is Desert Borderlands), with each map belonging to one of the participating worlds. Players on their own borderland spawn at the Citadel towards the north of the map; players from the other two worlds spawn in either the south-east or south-west corners of the map. Unless noted otherwise, the 2 Alpine Borderlands maps share identical features.

With the release of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, and since the 22 June 2016 update, the Alpine Borderlands are linked to the Green and the Blue teams, while the Desert Borderlands is linked to the Red team.

Locations

While the two borderlands maps are physically identical, the locations on them have different names. The table below shows the different names for each location.

Location	Green	Red (inactive)	Blue
North resource camp	The Titanpaw	The Godsword	The Spiritholme
Skritt territory	Neuskrittia	Chitaritta	Chitterogg
Centaur territory	Eboneigh Territory	Blackwicker Territory	Brownmane Territory
Home world spawn	Green World Citadel	Red World Citadel	Blue World Citadel
North-west tower	Sunnyhill	Longview	Woodhaven
North-west resource camp	Faithleap	Arah's Hope	Godslore
North-east tower	Cragtop	Cliffside	Dawn's Eyrie
North-east resource camp	Foghaven	Astralholme	Stargrove
Central keep	Green Alpine Garrison	Red World Garrison	Blue Alpine Garrison
Western keep	Dreadfall Bay	Dreaming Bay	Ascension Bay
Eastern keep	Shadaran Hills	Etheron Hills	Askalion Hills
Central lake	Cohen's Overlook Patrick's Ascent Temple of the Fallen Norfolk's Hollow Gertzz's Estate	Demontrance Lake	Orchard Overlook Carver's Ascent Temple of Lost Prayers Battle's Hollow Bauer's Estate
South-west tower	Bluebriar	Greenbriar	Redbriar
South-west resource camp	Bluevale Refuge	Greenvale Refuge	Redvale Refuge
South-east tower	Redlake	Bluelake	Greenlake
South-east resource camp	Redwater Lowlands	Bluewater Lowlands	Greenwater Lowlands
South resource camp	Hero's Lodge	Victor's Lodge	Champion's Demesne
South-west spawn	Blue World Border	Green World Border	Red World Border
South-east spawn	Red World Border	Blue World Border	Green World Border

Events

• Defeat the veteran warg (80)
• Destroy the harpy veteran (80)
• Kill the veteran wurm (80)
• Eliminate the centaur threat (80)
  • Defeat the centaur leader (80)
• Remove the skritt threat from the area (80)
  • Kill the veteran skritt (80)
• Defeat the ghost veterans (80)
• Capture the camp (80)
• Defend the camp (80)
  • Repel the enemy attackers (80)
• Secure the keep (80)
• Defend the keep (80)
  • Repel the enemy attackers (80)
• Capture the tower (80)
• Defend the tower (80)
  • Repel the enemy attackers (80)
• Claim this land for your world (80)
• Defend this land for your world (80)
• Stop the enemy supply caravan (80)
• Defend your supply caravan (80)
• Capture the ruins for your realm! (80)
• Defend the ruins for your realm! (80)

Group events

• [Group Event] Defeat the champion spider (80)

Services

Starter area (Enemy Borderlands)

• Arcane Eye Agent
• Banker
• Black Lion Trader
• Guild Master
• Heroics Notary
• Instructor
• Laurel Merchant
• Legendary Commander War Razor
• Outfitter
• Siege Master
• Skirmish Supervisor
• Skritt Trader
• TEID-07 Unified Vendor System
• Traps and Tricks
• World Ability Master

Keeps

• Quartermaster
• Arcane Eye Agent
• Armor Master
• Golem Banker
• Outfitter
• Siege Master
• Weapon Trader

Garrison (Keep services plus)

• Mystic Forge Attendant

Towers

• Quartermaster
• Outfitter
• Siege Master

Resource Camps

• Quartermaster

Crafting resources

Resource Nodes

Lumber Synthesizer

Ore Synthesizer

Berry Synthesizer

Cloth Synthesizer

Herb Synthesizer

Leather Synthesizer

Vegetable Synthesizer

Pets

All pets are located near the same Point of Interest within a particular Borderland.

• Hero's Orchard in Green Borderlands.
• Champion's Demesne in Blue Borderlands.

Blue Jellyfish

In the water to the south-east of the POI

Boar

At the southernmost central point, just south of the woods to the south of the POI.

Pig

Behind the buildings, just south of the POI.

River Drake

On the shore, just south-east and south-west of the POI.

Shark

In the water, south-west of the POI.

Forest Spider

In the woods, just south of the POI.

Notes

• Like elsewhere in WvW, NPCs in Citadels, Keeps, Towers and Resource Camps are friendly allies when on the same team, but otherwise are hostile enemies.
• The type of Hero challenges on each of the borderlands are cycled. For example, the challenge south of the southernmost supply camp involves a commune in red borderlands, a consumable in blue borderlands, and a fight with an NPC in green borderlands.
• You may access services including Guild NPCs for free from anywhere in Tyria any time you're not in combat by entering your home borderland, accessing the desired services, then leaving the mists to return to your prior location. If you were previously in an instance, you will be returned to your location prior to entering the instance.
• Since the 22 June 2016 update, the Red Alpine Borderlands are no longer accessible. The red world instead uses a Desert Borderlands map.

Trivia

• The borderlands used to have Quaggan weather node mercenary camps in a center lake until they were replaced by the Borderlands Bloodlust system in the September 17 2013 game update.
• After Beta Event Weekend 2 all titles such as ((Blue World)), ((Red World)) and ((Green World)) were re-titled to the server you were facing (e.g. Sea of Sorrows Borderlands).
• World Completion used to require 100% exploration on all 3 alpine borderlands.

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